Peter J wrote:
>also believe that FIB is the basis for the VCL that will be included in IB 6.
> and seem to be speedy. For a more complete review, Peter Hyde is probably
> the man as I know he used IBObjects extensively.
Or Gary, or Robert L, or Max, or... <g>.
I've not looked at FreeIBO myself, but my understanding from
Robert is that, apart from the issues you already mentioned, IBO
has more high-level functionality and objects to play with. This
can be regarded as a plus or a minus, depending on the level at
which you understand and like to interact with Interbase. For me,
it's generally a plus.
IBO also has more third-party support, in areas which interest me
anyway. For example both Rubicon and Webhub have IBO-
specific component support now, but not Free-IB.
Oh, and again I don't know about FreeIB, but the IBO support I've
had has always been very fast and friendly (e.g. last Wednesday,
from bug report through to confirmation, personally-supplied
patch and then a solution posted for everyone was 4 hours, total).
> Switching the bde with IBO or FIB is probably not too hard as
> they both have dataset components.
I'm in the midst of doing such a switch for an overseas developer
at present, having done so a couple of times in the past. Not too
fearsome at all with IBO.
cheers,
peter
============================================
Peter Hyde, SPIS Ltd, Christchurch, New Zealand
* TurboNote: http://TurboPress.com/tbnote.htm
-- small, FREE and very handy
* Print-to-Web automation http://TurboPress.com
* Web design, automation and hosting specialists
Find all the above and MORE at http://www.spis.co.nz
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz
